14 February, 2009

I See Myself As The Grinch Of This Particular Holiday

Sure, mX has a two-page spread devoted to Valentine's Day love letters, a third of which is taken up by an ad for cheap domestic flights. And sure, there's a myriad of awful poetry that I could have a field day with. But you expect bad poetry on Valentine's Day. What really gets to me are the god-awful metaphors people like to use in regular prose dedications.

Chocolate bunnies are for Easter so you may have gotten confused in the gift-buying process, glow sticks fade after three hours, Gandalf is never looking for a serious relationship and I don't even want to know what a goddamn sugar snaffler is.

Wait, wasn't the sugar snaffler a less popular character on Sesame St?

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If you catch public transport in either Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane, you've probably seen the free paper called mX. On their letters page is a section called "Here's Looking At You," which is for single commuters who wish to tell someone on their train that they like them by describing their appearance and asking one word questions like, "Coffee?" or "Interested?"

And if that's all you do, I have no problem with that. Good luck to you, hope things don't turn out really awkward. This blog is all about the ones who get it wrong: the creepy, the arrogant, the just plain stupid. I think they deserve more than one day of being read by tired office workers. They deserve an archive.

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